Baby Steps To Blogs Paradigm Shift

Brad Andersohn, Community Builder, for Active Rain presented a 5 hour presentation at the OmahaArea Board of Realtors, OABR. I am an inactive member of Active Rain, not quite believing in the profitability of blogging. Brads presentation and vision pried open my hard head enough to see the significance of this new world of electronic idea sharing.

I've had such a hard time believing in the power of search engines to organize the unfathomable amount of information out there. I'm still catching up on the power of a website and its potential. Now, Brad tells me, blogs and networks like Active Rain are up staging web sites.

I'm stretching Brad. So I went home to google my name as Brad suggested we do. When I did this 11 months ago I was about number eight on the list of Steve Vacha's. Today I found I was in the the top two entries of a google search and listed in 8 of the ten listings on the first page. I realized the two Active Rain blogs I completed 10 months ago and joining several other networks put me at the top of the google search engine for my name. I was impressed. (Don't mention this to the other Steve Vacha's in the world).

I know my business world is all about connections. Brad Andersohn was inviting all of us at that conference into a whole other realm of connections that I need to stretch to fathom. I'll keep stretching one baby step at a time.

Steve Vacha

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